I don’t blame Dan Sansky for hanging up. If I were him, I wouldn’t talk to me. I found Sansky’s cellphone number on his employment application at the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS), where he is maintenance supervisor.
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DICKSON CITY — State Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Saturday, recalling the discrimination Irish immigrants faced when they came to the United States, blasted the prejudice that exists today.
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State criminal investigators have begun looking into how a mechanic received unauthorized health insurance from the Scranton School District for 12 years. Superintendent Alexis Kirijan, Ed.D., said an investigator from the state police and another from th
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SCRANTON — City police charged a man with choking his girlfriend and bouncing her head off a kitchen counter Saturday afternoon. Jalil Bahar-Kubadidi, 18, of 602 Grace St., is charged with assaulting Alisha Ocasio, who suffered bruises over her left eye a
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SCRANTON — A West Abington Twp. supervisor will serve out his sentence for exposing himself to three girls in the Lackawanna County Prison. Supervisor David P. Button Sr. wanted Judge Margaret Bisignani Moyle to change his jail sentence to home confinemen
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Changes implemented earlier this month by the state Department of Auditor General ensure all school district audits and reviews examine school safety measures and provide findings to law enforcement officials.
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SCRANTON - City police are seeking information about a Tuesday night incident in which someone fired a bullet into a moving car in South Side.

Scranton police Detectives Capt. Al Leoncini said the bullet came from either a white Honda or Hyundai stopped at Genet Street and South Webster Avenue.

Three people in a car turning left past the white car heard a pop and later discovered a bullet hole in one of the car's passenger doors, Capt. Leoncini said. Anyone with information may contact city police Detectives Michael Schultz or James Pappas at 348-4139.

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